stress-FREEDOM for our planet through green hair

September 10, 2008 · Filed Under grotesque, stress-FREEDOM, sustainability · Comment 

Minorities which were suppressed, persecuted or just discriminated against are getting more and more visibility in the media and more acceptance in society in general.

 2,500 red haired people attended the Redhead Day in Breda, the Netherlands, on Sept. 7, 2008 The festival gathers natural redheads and their “non-redhaired partners, children and admirers” every year:.http://www.roodharigen.nl/ . The American http://realmofredheads.com/ counts almost  3000 members.

I wonder when will the stress-FREEDOM adepts be willing to come out of their Epicurean closets. After 800 years of flourishing (roughly from 300 BCE till 500 CE) they were forced to go underground, their clear ideas were partly stolen, distorted and ridiculed, and congruent practice of simple life forgotten.  

In the last 30 years there is a rising consciousness of sustainability issues and people might just discover that Epicurean simplicity might be the medicine for lots of physical and mental diseases caused by stress. Communication specialists will have to deliver the message backed by scientific research so that more and more people can realize that Epicurean simplicity can guarantee not only happiness for its practitioners but also sustainability for the globe.

Being a friend of wisdom – a practicing philosopher and active supporter of global sustainability – might just become presentable and even acceptable so that the seekers of stress-FREEDOM for themselves and for our planet can come out and come together!

As a starter, we might paint our hair green and organize a festival every year!

 

a stress-FREE money saving tip

September 9, 2008 · Filed Under grotesque, happiness-boosters, stress-FREEDOM · Comment 

Frugality is an Epicurean virtue par-excellence. I have found a stress-FREE, original and synergic method to save money and at the same time secure some other ingredients of stress-FREEDOM:

  • no nagging questions about your whereabouts
  • no nagging questions about the whereabouts of your money
  • no instructions about taking out the garbage or the dog
  • no instructions about what to put on and what not to put on
  • no recaps of your sins
  •  … you may continue this list according to your personal experience of cohabitation

All you have to do is to get your room-mate to steal something and while she is doing the job you call the police. The results can be really rewarding.

Do you doubt the efficacy of this method?

I haven’t invented it: It has been tested and found true – in real life! (see excerpt and link below)

After you try it out, please let me know the results.

Here is the proof of this method:

JAILED MATE

Man Leaves Girlfriend Behind Bars to Save Money

A frugal man has declined an invitation from police to pay a €225 ($320) fine that would get his girlfriend out of jail. The woman is serving a 15-day sentence for fraud.

A man has opted to let his live-in girlfriend stay in jail rather than pay a €225 ($320) fine that would spare her from serving a 15-day sentence after she was caught stealing a bottle of shampoo, police said on Monday.

[...]

“On Saturday morning a police officer telephoned her partner and asked if he could come and pay the fine. But he didn’t feel like coming to the police station,” police said in a statement.

The man still hadn’t shown up on Monday, police said, noting that he may have been influenced by the fact that the fine falls by €15 for each day spent in jail. “One has to make savings wherever one can these days,” police said.

You can read the whole story here: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,576967,00.html